The 100 Most Powerful Women

#96 Charlene Begley

08.19.09, 06:00 PM EDT

Begley has been with GE for 20 years, and has held a variety of leadership roles across the company, including vice president of operations at GE Capital Mortgage Services, quality leader and later chief financial officer at GE Transportation Systems.

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Begley has been with GE for 20 years, and has held a variety of leadership roles across the company, including vice president of operations at GE Capital Mortgage Services, quality leader and later chief financial officer at GE Transportation Systems. In July 2005, she was named president and CEO of GE Plastics, and two years later led the sale of the underperforming division to Saudi Arabian company SABIC for $11.6 billion. In 2007, she was appointed CEO of GE's new Enterprise Solutions division. Since then, she has expanded the GE Enterprise Solutions portfolio with four key acquisitions: Phoenix, Rheonik, Covi Technologies and MTL Open System Technologies. Begley serves on the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders, the GE FANUC Board of Directors and the board of the National Association of Manufacturers. —Mary Ellen Egan

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